“Yesterday I found one curled up in my clothes,” said 84-year-old Shirley Thiessen. “I said to him, ‘You don't pay rent' and picked him up and tossed him outside.”

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“You get used to them,” resident Jim Monkman said. “The other day one fell off the doorframe and landed on my shoulder.”

Snakes on a shoulder?

“Yeah, it was a bit like a pirate with a parrot,” he said. “I just walked outside with it on my shoulder and brushed it off into the grass.”

But some are a little more cold-blooded.

Mabel Anderson, a 73-year-old mother of 10 and grandmother of 40, isn't so sensitive.
“I kill 20 or 30 a day,” she said.

Asked her preferred extermination method, Ms. Anderson lifted one of her sequined slippers and stomped it to the ground. “Can you believe I stepped right on its head?” she says, pointing to a snake carcass lying in the grass just outside the front door.